Welcome to my Blog page. If you are into Yummie creativeness then read on. I'm an artist, poet and Fun-arian. Mostly,I love painting. I work intuitively and very organically, allowing images to emerge from layers of colour and painted marks on the canvas. I also use a variety of tools or natural objects.
Finished artwork for sale online at my website www.http://YummieArt.com/ or contact me through my FB page facebook.com/ShonaHutchings

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Tuesday, 29 March 2011

I finished a mandala I have been working on all week and I am noticing how the act of creating it with placement and colour choice and the actual painting is affecting how I perceive my outer world. I seem to be seeing colour and design in nature in a new way. I'm assuming that all artists have been experiencing this through all time and that maybe as children we experience something like this. I am rediscovering parts of myself and awakening awareness of my world, even to the point of noticing mandala's on my skin, in my breakfast or looking into someones elses eyes. It's a bit like when I liked a particular car design a few years ago and then I started seeing those sort of cars everywhere I looked. Prior to that I had not noticed them at all. I love that mandala's are everywhere and in everything, in every atom. Beauty appears even in something I perceive as ugly. How funny is that?

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

I've just spent a couple of hours navigating around the blog site design tools and changing the look of the page. Time flies when you have no idea of what you are doing. Steep learning curve. Enough of this. I am off to finish a mandala I started yesterday. The house is quiet and it's time to attune to that. I've added some links to websites you might like to browse.

Monday, 21 March 2011

This is my first intro to Blogging . This Blog will preview art I am exploring and creating and be a place I can post songs and poetry and travel updates. I am visiting Ubud in Bali, for the first time, on the 18th April and attending a 6 day art workshop with Dawn Meader ( wonderful woman artist ).

I first became interested in Mandala's and Mandala art about 20 years ago when I lived in Denmark, in the south of WA. I remember doing some Mandala art and feeling very intimidated by my lack of artistic ability ( based on what I perceived art and artists to be). I dabbled a bit and then left it alone. A few years later I created a Mandala as part of a womans circle I was attending. I don't think I had the awareness then to notice how happy I feel when I am working on mandala's. I framed that piece in an old clock face and it is still hanging on our lounge room wall. A few years later I purchased a lovely book on mandala by Bailey Cunningham called Mandala Journey to the Centre and this title was the inspiration for my Blog name. I was also gifted two Mandala colouring in books which I would sit and colour from time to time.

Throughout the following years I experimented with Mandala in sand art, mosaic and several other mediums. It was always present and yet somehow in the background and never fully acknowledged as the central element of life that it is. Present in all creation. So, now I am finally acknowledging it and placing it at the centre of my daily life and exploration into art. I derive an immense amount of pleasure and an upsurging of joy in my being when I notice mandala's myriad forms in nature and then translate that into art pieces which are so much fun to create.

Start of the painting that became Devine

Welcome to My World

Cherish

Joy Constellation

Acrylic on canvas 90cm x 45cm

Joy and Love Journal

made from scraps of calico, material, wool and ribbon

Connection

Acrylic on canvas Large

Listen to My Heart Song

Acrylic on canvas

About Me

Emerging artist. I love creating any art that means I can play and paint with my hands and anything else that makes a mark on canvas. This includes mostly acrylic on canvas, pop up art and Mandala's. When I paint I connect with nature, Self, intuition.

Freeing the spirit

Goldrush

Power shell

Temples Lake Bretahn Bali

March Mandala

Garden Santra Putra

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I wrote this after being in hospital in Chicago. Keith took me to Fox River and then to an orchard

You come a long way on an aeroplaneYou see alot o' things in the slip streamAnd when you get to the place your goin'It's like a dream more than a knowin'

But when you lay back among the flowers on the grassYou see the frogs hoppin' andthe water dancin' pastA little ladybird jitter buggin' to therhythm of the crickets tune

Oh, the Fox River is the place to beAfter all that concrete in the cityBirds flyin' overheadSun shining down on me

All the medicine I needTo bring my spirit back to sanityA ukulele strummin' a sweet melodyRiver boats thrummin' in their bellies

It's a good life here for mePickin' fresh apples and rasberriesWatchin' the bees swing lazilyUnder the leaves of the fruit trees

Oh the Woodstock Orchard is the place to beAfter all that concrete in the cityBirds flyin' overheadSun shinin' down on me

Oh the sun shinin' down on meYeh the sun shinin down on meThe sun shinin' down on me

A song I wrote in Nov 2008

That pinging splashThat tinkling laughThat shower bathThey're all the same

That rushing creekThat book crit-icThat hydrant leakThey're all the same

And I can hear it running throughI feel the threadjust weaving throughCan you all hear it running throughThe whole of life?

Hear that hammer smashhear that drummers crashHear that rustling cashThey're all the same

Hear that thud of hoovesHear those party groovesHear that singers' bluesThey're all the same

Theres just one Universal soundExpressed and heard so differentlyJust like a tapestry in timeI hear it all through everythingCan you just hear it running throughThe whole of LifeThe whole of LifeCan you just feel it weaving throughthe whole of Life

Flower Mandala from my garden

Flower Mandala

My first mandala - 1990

coloured pencil, emboidery thread and beads, framed in a clock face

Three sisters Mandala

Last week, I went to sit under a huge Mulberry tree in Subiaco. To my suprise and delight there was a kookaburra sitting on a branch just a little more than an arms length away from me. We sat together for maybe 10 minutes and were then joined by two more kookaburra's. It was one of those special moments in time. Inspired, I painted this mandala originally with a gradation of white through to black, experimenting with light and then decided in the end to add the green leaves of the tree. It is framed in an old plastic clock face which I got at an op shop.